Month: June 2016
Cloud Computing and ERP
June 27, 2016
ERP Software
Software and information technology have progressed in leaps and bounds. Different software and even a collection of software are used by organization to achieve business and process accuracy. Software applications are customized by a dedicated team of engineers in every organization, to achieve the best level of efficiency and accuracy. This in turn further helps in the smooth running of business. This yields more revenue and thereby ensures success and growth for an organization. One such suite of application is the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software.
Businesses grow in Singapore. It has for a long time been the commercial capital of Asia. This is because it has the environment that is conducive for companies to establish themselves and grow there. The policies formulated by the government ensure that Singapore has minimal corruption and even tax issues are not a headache for businessmen. For these reasons Singapore has always been one of the favorite places for businessmen.
Business and software are intrinsically connected in the modern times. Many processes that were earlier regulated and maintained by human beings can be done in a jiffy by advanced applications. A collection of such applications to maintain various processes in an organization is ERP software. ERP software in Singapore is very common. As Singapore is commercially very ripe, for businesses to run successfully it is important for organizations to be able to manage their information judiciously. For this ERP software is much needed.
Cloud Computing and ERP
Cloud computing is a much talked about topic in the present times. It is also called on-demand computing. It functions on the premise of using the internet to store data provide computing resources that are shared. Cloud computing covers from emailing to photo sharing on a social networking site. It encompasses the huge arena of hosting a computing infrastructure of a corporation functioning worldwide, from remote data centers.
Singapore has many large global enterprises. ERP is an enterprise software as it is mainly used by large enterprises. ERP software in Singapore is slowly moving towards cloud computing as many multinational firms are functioning in Singapore. Cloud ERP ensures that the company’s processes like accounting, supply chain, human resource management, and manufacturing are run through cloud. This ensures that the data is never lost due to malfunctioning of a software or hardware as the data is stored in the World Wide Web. Hence cloud ERP is the new technology that is soon going to take over the world.
Little History Of The Self Service Kiosk That Is Interesting
June 24, 2016
What is it? – Self Service Kiosk is a terminal that is computerized which can feature all the exceptional software and hardware developed to exhibit in the public for accessing any kind of information and any kind of application to communicate, commerce, education and entertainment. Initially they were designed like the telephone booths and now are the days where they are being used whilst sitting on a chair or bench at the own comfort.
Where it is Kept and what is the use? – The self service kiosk or interactive kiosk is used by people and in the place of high foot fall. So, strategically the kiosk is placed in airports, metro stations, multiplexes and airports etc. Kiosk being technologically integrated helps in performing many unique and wide ranges of roles. For example, if it is a heavy traffic multiplex it is highly impossible to give the ticket for online booked show in a theatre, that too manually. So few cinema theatres do have the Kiosk option which can give the ticket by input of a code and online booked number which save time and rush. Owners can have many specifications to meet the requirements of their business. Few may require a bill acceptor while the other a card reader, so it is easy to design a Kiosk as per the need.
History – The first and foremost self service kiosk was seen by many visitors, students and teachers of University of Illinois during an Urbana Campaign. It was then led by Murray Lappe, Student, Pre-med. It is designed on a Plato Computer which was made accessible through a touch screen made of Plasma. This display panel was first invented by Donald L Bitzer at University of Illinois. The kiosk allowed everyone who wants to seek information regarding the movies, courses, extracurricular office to bus schedules and other directory related stuff.
The first commercial use was a conceptual project designed and developed by a retailer of the shoe named Florshem Shoe Co. It was led by a most ingenious executive vice president in 1985. It was manufactured, created and customized with the help of ByVideo Inc resided in Sunnyvale of California. It was a huge network built even though the first commercial kiosk; as huge as 600 Kiosks as a network. With these Kiosks a customer can actually buy whatever shoe they want, that which is not available based on the retail stock or location. Any shoe can be selected by the choice of colours and size and a payment should be made on the Kiosk only. The payment made will directly reach the mainframe for the immediately following day either as a home delivery or in few cases as the store delivery. It lasted for 6 long years in many locations.